Ring



. March 24, 1931. I J ONElL 1,798,103

RING Filed Jan. 17, 1930 Jazz/mid OWE/ii,

ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 24, 1931 UNITED STATES JEREMIAH RICHARD ONEIL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS RING Application filed January 17, 1930.

This invention relates to a novel article of jewelry and more particularly to a novel means for mounting an emblem or other ornamental piece upon a ring, watch charm or other piece of jewelry.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide means whereby a stone, as a backing piece, and an emblem or the like disposed thereon, may be mounted upon a ring or other article of jewelry without the employment of any extraneous fastening means such as rivets, and the use of which means would necessitate the boring of holes in the ring, and the plate and emblem. Therefore the invention contemplates a means whereby such an article of ewelry may be produced at lower cost than ordinarily and will be more attractive in appearance than one in which the emblem is secured by rivets.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional View on the line 22 of Figure 1 looking in the direc- 35 tion indicated by the arrows.

Figure 3 is a group perspective view illustrating the ring, the stone referred to above, and the emblem, relatively separated.

lVhile the drawing illustrates the invention embodied in a ring, it will be understood that the invention is not limited in this respect, but that its principles find embodiment in various articles of jewelry. In the embodiment shown, the ring which is indicated by the numeral 1 is formed with a bezel 2, the wall 3 of which is, in the illustrated embodiment, of rectangular form, although it may be of some other shape, and the sides of this wall are so formed as to provide relatively low or shallow intermediate portions 4, and corner Serial No. 421,504.

portions 5 which are of greater height than the intermediate portion, the bottom of the bezel being flat. The stone, above referred to, is indicated by the numeral 6 and this stone may be any natural stone possessing a desired distinctive color, and the same is of rectangular marginal contour of dimensions to fit within the bezel 2, and rests against the bottom thereof, thestone being confined by the walls of the bezel and of any desired thickness less than the height of the corner wall portions .5. The emblem, which is to be mounted, is indicated by the numeral 7 and may be of any desired form although, in the present invention, it comprises an ornamental 5 design, indicated by the numeral 8, which is supported within a rectangular frame 9.

In assembling the parts, the stone 6 is fitted into the cavity of the bezel and the emblem 7 is then likewise fitted into the cavity in posi- 74; tion with its frame 9, or its inner side resting upon the outer surface of the stone. The corner portions 5 of the wall of the bezel are then pressed or stamped inwardly at their outer edges so as to firmly clamp the corner 73 portions of the frame of the emblem, and in this manner the emblem and the stone 6 are securely and permanently mounted in the bezel. It will be understood of course that instead of anchoring the stone and emblem an in the manner stated, these parts and the walls of the bezel may be so proportioned that the stone and bezel will be required to be forced into place in the cavity of the bezel, but, in any event, the invention contemplates the retention of the stone and emblem, in the cavity of the bezel by the gripping action of the walls of the cavity.

In the embodiment illustrated in'the drawing, the stone 6 is of a thickness somewhat cc greater than the height of the shallow intermediate wall portions 3, so that, in this in stance the margins of the stone will be visible as well as those portions of the face of the stone which correspond to the open work of the design of the emblem 8. While, in the drawing, the stone 6 is illustrated as flat sided, it will be understood that, if found necessary, or desirable, it might be rounded, beveled, or concave, inasmuch as in the carrying out of the invention it might be found that some bezels have a protruding part which would prevent the emblem from conforming to a flat stone.

lVhile the figures of the drawing illustrate the bezel and the emblem as of rectangular form, it, will be evident that, in accordance with the principles of the invention, the emblem and bezel may be of difierent marginal contours. rectangular and the emblemrof curvilinear marginal contour, and vice versa, so long as the emblem is held in place by the wall of the bezel. Likewise any thickness of stone may be used, and the stone need not be flat, nor,

always be visible to view at its edges.

hat I claim is 1. As a, new article of manufacture, a jewelry bezel having a cavity, a portion of the walls of which are shallow and other portions of greater height, a stone disposed within the cavity and confined by the walls thereof, and an emblem disposed within the cavity upon the face of the stone, the higher portions of the walls of the cavity being in damp ing engagement with the margins of the emblem.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a jewelry-bezel having a cavity, a portion of the walls of which areshallow and other portions-of greater height, a stone disposed within the cavity and confined by the walls thereof, and an emblem disposed within the cavity upon the face of'the stone, the higher por-' tions of the walls of the cavity being in clamping engagement with the margins of the emblem, the said stone being of a thickness greater than the height of the shallow portions of the walls of the cavity whereby the correspondingmarginal portions of the stone will be visible to View.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature.

J. RICHARD ONEIL.

For example the bezel might be 

